KADAMBINI GANGULY ,BRITISH EMPHIRE`S FIRST LADY DOCTOR GRADUATED 1886 DIED 1923 OCTOBER 3
KADAMBINI GANGULY ,BRITISH EMPHIRE`S FIRST LADY DOCTOR GRADUATED 1886 DIED 1923 OCTOBER 3 Kadambini Ganguly (Bengali: কাদম্বিনী গাঙ্গুলি) (18 July 1861 – 3 October 1923) and Chandramukhi Basu were the first two female graduates from India and the entire British Empire. She was also the first South Asian female physician, trained in western medicine, to graduate in South Asia. Anandi Gopal Joshi, another Indian, graduated as a physician the same year (1886) in the United States. Early life[edit] The daughter of Brahmo reformer Braja Kishore Basu, she was born on 18 July 1861 at Bhagalpur, Bihar in British India. The family was from Chandsi, in Barisal which is now in Bangladesh. Her father was headmaster of Bhagalpur School. He and Abhay Charan Mallick started the movement for women's emancipation at Bhagalpur, establishing the women's organisation Bhagalpur Mahila Samiti in 1863, the first in India. Kadambini started her education at Banga Mahila Vidyal...